Many Christian Right Republicans see Obama &
the Democrats as Millennial Apocalyptic End-Times
Satanic Agents

Overviews

Apocalyptic expectation can be positive or negative concerning the outcome and actions seen as appropriate or required. The underlying belief system can be religious, spiritual, or secular.

How this Apocalyptic Aggression Works

The merger of apocalyptic frameworks and conspiracy-based or fear-based belief systems spawns aggressive confrontations that undermine civil society in a democracy.

Apocalyptic Aggression occurs when demonized scapegoats are targeted as enemies of the “common good,” and a confrontation seen as not just a political necessity but a sacred duty. Society is portrayed as split between the forces of good and the forces of evil. This dualistic worldview can create needless confrontations and in its most fanatical forms can lead to lead to discrimination and even physical attacks.

Aggressive Apocalyptic Religious Triumphalism can become a form of Theocratic Neofascism or Clerical Neofascism in tiny subcultures of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism.

Apocalypticism: The belief in an approaching confrontation, cataclysmic event, or transformation of epochal proportion, about which a select few have forewarning so they can make appropriate preparations.

From a Greek root word suggesting unveiling hidden information or revealing secret knowledge about unfolding human events. The dualist or demonized version involves a final show-down struggle between absolute good and absolute evil

It is the combination of apocalyptic aggression with patriarchy, theocracy, fanaticism, and fundamentalism that is so toxic to democracy and civil society in our world today.

Interestingly, there are fundamentalists in every religion who reject fanaticism and theocracy, and within that group some who reject patriarchy. Too often religious belief alone, or its form as fundamentalism, are indicted as the source of the problem, when the aggregate is what is so dangerous.

In its most totalitarian forms, these aberrant religious movements can sometimes accurately be classified as neofascism.

This is true in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, among other religions. It is true in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and the United States.

Apocalyptic Aggression in Islam

Apocalyptic Aggression in Christianity

Main Overview Study:

Dances with Devils:How Apocalyptic and Millennialist Themes Influence Right Wing Scapegoating and Conspiracism

This extensive overview provides an introduction to the way in which apocalypticism and millennialism influence a variety of right-wing political and social movements, especially in the United States. Written for Political Research Associates..

If premillennialists are waiting for the Rapture,
why should they bother getting involved in secular politics?

In 1980 Tim LaHaye published a book, The Battle for the Mind, which amplified on the conservative Christian evangelical critique of secular humanism articulated by popular theologian Francis A. Schaeffer. The LaHaye book is dedicated to Schaeffer (1980, p. 5).

LaHaye writes in a chapter entitled "Is a Humanist Tribulation Necessary?" that the "seven-year tribulation period will be a time that features the rule of the anti-Christ over the world." LaHaye explains that this "tribulation is predestined and will surely come to pass." LaHaye claims there is another potential period of tribulation, however, that he dubs the “pre-tribulation tribulation—that is, the tribulation that will engulf this country if liberal secular humanists are permitted to take control of our government—it is neither predestined nor necessary. But it will deluge the entire land in the next few years, unless Christians are willing to become much more assertive in defense of morality and decency than they have been during the past three decades."